Helen Boyd

Helen Boyd
Helen Boyd (right) and Betty Crow in 2005

Helen Boyd (1969) is the pen name of Gail Kramer, the American author of two books[1] about her relationship with her transgender partner. Her partner is referred to in both books as "Betty Crow", though this is also a pseudonym.

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Biography

Helen Boyd graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The City College of New York in 1995 with a degree in literature. She has been a guest speaker at trans conferences, including the IFGE, First Event[2], Fantasia Fair, Southern Comfort, the Chicago Be-All, and also at special events like Trans Issues Week at Yale University. Helen and Betty have spoken about LGBT marriage on PBS’s In The Life.[3][4] As of 2011, she is also a Lecturer of Gender and Freshman Studies at Lawrence University[5].

Boyd also runs the mHB Forums, a message board for the discussion of crossdressing- and transgender-related topics. The community associated with the board is noted for its willingness to debate sacred cows of the transgender community.[citation needed]

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My Husband Betty

My Husband Betty (2004, Thunder's Mouth Press, ISBN 1-56025-515-3) is a non-fiction book by author Helen Boyd about crossdressers and their partners. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

Unlike many other books about the topic of crossdressing, it is written specifically from the partner's point of view by a partner and takes a distinctively feminist approach. Although the author's husband was a crossdresser at the time of publication, she now considers herself "trans", a word chosen specifically because it was less well defined (and therefore less restrictive) than "transgender".

She's Not The Man I Married

Boyd's second book is She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband (Seal Press, 2007).

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